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Bill	Fair Labor Standards Act; employer liability, overtime required for certain employees, report.	Fair Labor Standards Act; overtime; employer liability. Replaces the current provisions of the Virginia Overtime Wage Act with the provision that any employer that violates the overtime wage requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and any related laws and regulations, shall be liable to its employee for remedies or other relief available under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The bill requires an employer to compensate employees of a derivative carrier, defined in the bill, at a rate not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek. The bill requires the Secretary of Labor to convene a work group that includes certain industry representatives and legislators to review overtime issues and the Virginia Overtime Wage Act  and requires the work group to submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Commerce and Energy and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Commerce and Labor by November 1, 2022. This bill is identical to HB 1173.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 631	Virginia SB 631 (2022)	bill		enacted	George L. Barker	6	50	13	2022-01-17	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/6899c8d0-e89e-4d51-a67a-026aa9284fbb	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB631	8d969f7804ec3301c4014c7936d92624ccea46432bc895f542ab5a4ba81a3f76	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 631 (2022) — Fair Labor Standards Act; employer liability, overtime required for certain employees, report.

Fair Labor Standards Act; overtime; employer liability. Replaces the current provisions of the Virginia Overtime Wage Act with the provision that any employer that violates the overtime wage requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, and any related laws and regulations, shall be liable to its employee for remedies or other relief available under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The bill requires an employer to compensate employees of a derivative carrier, defined in the bill, at a rate not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek. The bill requires the Secretary of Labor to convene a work group that includes certain industry representatives and legislators to review overtime issues and the Virginia Overtime Wage Act  and requires the work group to submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Chairmen of the House Committees on Appropriations and Commerce and Energy and the Senate Committees on Finance and Appropriations and Commerce and Labor by November 1, 2022. This bill is identical to HB 1173.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. CHAP0462 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22106279D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 22107064D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Presented and ordered printed 22103916D (committee substitute) — source
5. SB631ER (committee substitute) — source
6. SB631S2 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) — 32–8 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (58-Y 42-N) — 57–42 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 1-N) — 37–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Substitute by Senator Barker agreed to (21-Y 19-N) — 21–19 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (18-Y 3-N) — 18–3 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute agreed to by Senate (35-Y 5-N) — 35–5 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (31-Y 8-N 1-A) — 31–8 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• George L. Barker — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2022-01-17 Presented and ordered printed 22103916D introduction
• 2022-01-17 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2022-01-28 Assigned C&L sub: Labor and Employment referral-committee
• 2022-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (SB631)
• 2022-02-07 Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-07 Committee substitute printed 22106279D-S1 substitution
• 2022-02-07 Incorporates SB365 (Stuart)
• 2022-02-07 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-10 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-10 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-14 Floor substitute printed 22106595D-S2 (Barker)
• 2022-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-14 Committee substitute rejected 22106279D-S1
• 2022-02-14 Committee amendment rejected
• 2022-02-14 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-02-14 Passed by for the day
• 2022-02-15 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-02-15 Substitute by Senator Barker agreed to (21-Y 19-N)
• 2022-02-15 Title replaced 22106279D-S2
• 2022-02-15 Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB631S2
• 2022-02-15 Passed Senate (31-Y 8-N 1-A) passage
• 2022-02-15 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-15 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-15 Passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) passage
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Energy referral-committee
• 2022-02-21 Impact statement from DPB (SB631S2)
• 2022-02-24 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-24 Reported from Commerce and Energy with substitute (18-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-24 Committee substitute printed 22107064D-H1 substitution
• 2022-02-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-01 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-01 Committee substitute agreed to 22107064D-H1
• 2022-03-01 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB631H1
• 2022-03-01 Passed House with substitute (58-Y 42-N) passage
• 2022-03-01 VOTE: Passage (58-Y 42-N)
• 2022-03-03 House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 1-N)
• 2022-03-03 Title replaced 22107064D-H1
• 2022-03-03 Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-03 House substitute agreed to by Senate (35-Y 5-N)
• 2022-03-08 Enrolled
• 2022-03-08 Signed by President
• 2022-03-08 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-03-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB631ER)
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 462 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6899c8d0-e89e-4d51-a67a-026aa9284fbb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).